Category Archives: Mageia

PwnKit (polkit’s pkexec exploit) – CVE-2021-4034

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Filip Komar

The update fixing the issue for Mageia 8 was released Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:31 UTC (05:31 EST). For anyone still running Mageia 7 (or older releases), the recommendation is … As root run “chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec”.That will mean pkexec … Continue reading →

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IRC channels migration

Posted on June 19, 2021 by papoteur

Since the start of the Mageia.Org project we have used several IRC channels as discussion rooms. The main advantage of this technology is that anyone can get in contact with us without any registration beforehand. Those channels were hosted on … Continue reading →

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Get involved with Mageia, become a Packager

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Donald Stewart

With Mageia 8 just released and development for Mageia 9 getting underway in Cauldron, the unstable branch of Mageia, now is a great time to get involved with packaging. We are starting to look at the features that we want … Continue reading →

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A New Board to go with the New Release

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Donald Stewart

The Mageia Association met for its Associate General Meeting on the 1st of March with the intention of electing a new Board to govern Mageia, as per the Mageia Constitution. The Board consists of 6 – 12 individuals that oversee the financials … Continue reading →

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Made it to a byte – announcing the release of Mageia 8

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Donald Stewart

Everyone at Mageia is very excited to announce the release of Mageia 8. Mageia 8 comes with new exciting features, major updates to your favourite programmes as well as support for recent hardware. The release is available to download directly, or … Continue reading →

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